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Ready to sit down or take a nap? Not yet! You need furniture first. Remodeling Tips If you have large furniture that may be difficult to move to the basement, consider bringing it in during the remodeling process and building around it. Alternately, hold off adding stair rails or other trim that will reduce the entryway size until the larger pieces are in. You probably already have an idea on how you’re going to place the furniture in your new basement. Or you are waiting to see the finished product before you decide. In either case, think access. That is, how are you going to get the furniture in and out of the basement? Remodeling Tips If one or more basement rooms won’t be in use yet, use them for temporary storage or as a staging area. If you have a crew, the drones can take things to the staging room and the queen (or king) bees can move things to the appropriate rooms. That’s why you’ll appreciate local building code that requires doorways and stairs to be of a specific size. You need to get that extra couch into the basement without marring all the walls. When placing furniture in a room, start with the largest pieces in the farthest room from the stairs. Then add the smaller things in that same room. That will keep you from tripping over things as you bring additional furniture in. Of course, if you have a daylight or walk-out basement with an entry door the job will be much easier than carrying things through the house and down the basement stairs. Remodeling Words A walk-out basement is one in which the floor of a building partly above and partly below grade. Also known as an American basement.
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